New Jersey's family cap experiment: Do fertility impacts differ by racial density?

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 431-460

  Jagannathan, Radha ^a   Camasso, Michael J ^a   Killingsworth, Mark ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 3142671395     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/381256     Document Type: Article

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